&nbsp;Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of a new build of the &quot;Debian&quot; edition of Linux <a href="http://distrowatch.com/mint">Mint</a>, a rolling-release distribution based on Debian's &quot;Testing&quot; branch: &quot;What a better time than Christmas to bring all the best from 2010 into an updated release of Linux Mint 'Debian'.

&nbsp;Greg Kroah-Hartman <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1071451/">has announced</a> plans to provide minor patches and bug fixes only for the current Stable Series of the Linux kernel. Selected older kernel versions will, in future, be maintained as &quot;Long-term&quot; releases. The kernel developer said he hopes that this approach will help the community and developers focus on the current versions rather than waste their time with old kernel versions.

&nbsp;We are very proud to present an updated version of MintPPC 9. In this new version many improvements are introduced:
<ul>
<li>MintPPC repository</li>
<li>all menu items should now work normally</li>
<li>introduction of automatic installation without prompting for feedback in the mint-installer script</li>
<li>improvements regarding the desktop settings</li>
<li>powerprefs, a GUI tool to adjust pbbuttonsd</li>

&nbsp;Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux <a href="http://distrowatch.com/mint">Mint</a> 10, code name &quot;Julia&quot;: &quot;The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 10.